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Anthony O'Neill 'Tony' Miller, reporter and editor
Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The former Ellicott City resident was 68.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Loyola University Maryland, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Israel, Scott Miller
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Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, reporter and editor
Baltimore Sun reporterAnthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The former Ellicott City resident was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Israel, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Scott Miller, George Mason
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39 dead in apparent mass suicide in Calif.
Police found the bodies of 39 young men, apparently cult members who believed they were sent to earth as angels, lying dead on their backs yesterday in a luxurious home -- victims of what authorities were calling a mass suicide. The cult they belonged...Tags: Lawyers, Suicide, Murder, Stranger Than Fiction, Homes
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Skittles joins food brands at center of tragedy
NEW YORK (AP) — It could've been Starbursts, Twizzlers or Sour Patch Kids. But when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot, he happened to be carrying a bag of Skittles. The 17-year-old's death at the hands of a neighborhood watchman in February ignited...Tags: Marketing, Mars, Inc., Harvey Milk, Marshawn Lynch, Trayvon Martin
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Daum: Don't 'drink the Kool-Aid'
Drunk any Kool-Aid lately? Or maybe you accused someone else of doing it? If so, congratulations, you're right in step with one of the nation's most popular idiomatic trends. A snappy, fruit-flavored way of referring to someone who unquestioningly...Tags: Massacres, Eric Schmidt, Cults and Sects, Kim Kardashian, Ken Kesey
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Don't 'go postal' over 'drinking the Kool-Aid' [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.Don't "drink the Kool-Aid," writes Meghan Daum in an Op-Ed column that urges readers to "ease up on a figure of speech arising from 1978's Jonestown massacre." She writes: [A]pparently unbeknown to just about everyone who uses the expression, "drinking...... -
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Hacienda pulls 'cult' ad
Hacienda admits it made a mistake.
For the first time in the history of the South Bend-based restaurant company, billboards are being removed less than two weeks after Hacienda launched a new advertising campaign.
Hacienda has instructed a local...Tags: Suicide, Marketing, Stranger Than Fiction, Dining and Drinking, Colleges and Universities
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Album review: The Peoples Temple’s ‘Sons of Stone’
Pop & HissHoZac Records' spring releases include superb limited-edition punk singles from bands such as Timmy’s Organism and Red Mass, but the most exciting item on the label’s roster is the long-awaited long player "Sons of Stone" from cosmic garage... -
Mix-tape Friday for June 10, 2010
Staff reporterGARRY'S MIXTAPE Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night Jarrett's Mixtape a. Over the Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin b. I'm a Pretender by Exploding Hearts c. Ballad of Jim Jones by Brian Jonestown Massacre d. Dusty Nothing by Dead Meadow e....Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Radio, Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Willie Nelson, Warren Zevon
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"Eden Springs (Made in Michigan Writers)" by Laura Kasischke
Special to the TribuneEden Springs (Made in Michigan Writers)" By Laura Kasischke Wayne State University Press, 146 pages, $18.95 You can, if you like, take a regional angle when you approach this forceful and lovely novella by one of our country's most (paradoxically)...Tags: Music, Cults and Sects
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Phantom Planet explores cults in 'Raise the Dead'
Special to The TimesThere is a dark side to pop. It can be heard in the Beatles' "Helter Skelter," the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler," Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen." For songwriters, bad news can be an inspiration. Alex Greenwald, the singer-guitarist of L.A.-...Tags: Radiohead (music group), Ray Davies, The Rolling Stones (music group), The O.C. (tv program), Stranger Than Fiction
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